New Horizons tracks solar wind slowdown as interstellar atoms add drag

A new Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) study based on data from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has uncovered insights into ...

NASA’s New Horizons Reveals a Hidden Interstellar Slowdown at the Solar System’s Edge

For obvious reasons, the Sun’s influence weakens as you get closer to the edge of the solar system. But things might be a lot ...

How solar wind forecasting will help define heliosphere's boundaries

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) scientists are using a solar wind forecasting method combined with analytic and numerical ...
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Two solar probes are helping researchers understand what phenomenon powers the solar wind

This artist’s rendition shows NASA’s Parker Solar Probe approaching the Sun. Steve Gribben/Johns Hopkins APL/NASA via AP Our Sun drives a constant outward flow of plasma, or ionized gas, called the ...
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Smithsonian Scientists Help Uncover How Solar Wind Gets Its Energy

Solar wind flowing from the Sun measured by Parker Solar Probe near the edge of the corona and later with Solar Orbiter at a larger distance during a spacecraft alignment. The solar wind contains ...

The US States Leading the Charge in Renewable Wind and Solar Energy

Something significant happened in 2024 that barely made headlines outside of energy circles. For the first time in modern ...
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Mars's rare disappearing solar wind event explained

Mars's atmosphere and climate are impacted by interactions with solar wind, a stream of plasma comprised of protons and electrons that flows from the sun's outermost atmosphere (corona), traveling at ...